Mr. Ivanou (Belarus), describing the United States and Canadian delegations' remarks about his country as gratuitous and untrue, said that he was at a loss to understand where the information on which they were based had come from. Belarus was a sovereign State Member of the United Nations, party to the principal international human rights instruments and other multilateral treaties.
Ivanou (Belarús) califica como gratuitas y falsas las declaraciones de la delegación estadounidense y no comprende sobre qué información se basan las acusaciones formuladas contra Belarús, que es un Estado soberano, Miembro de las Naciones Unidas y que se adhiere a los principales instrumentos internacionales relativos a los derechos humanos y a otros instrumentos multilaterales.